The Polish Desert

Yesterday I went to a real life desert about an hours drive from Krakow. It’s called Błędów Desert (sometime the Polish Sahara! (link in Polish)) and is a very strange phenomenon and quite unique to Central Europe. This being a desert there wasn’t much to take photos of!
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Latest Photos

July was a busy month. I had just come back from 10 days at the Baltic coast of Poland and had a days rest before I was jetting off again to Portugal (new country). First we visited Lisbon and stayed there for one night and then Porto for the JEWC ‘08. After returning to Lisbon [...]

Flickr Photos

Kaweh reminded me that I had a Flickr account too. I had filled it up with photos from Mexico and Croatia but seeing as they’re on my website already, I removed them from Flickr and uploaded some more artistic shots. Let me know what you think. Below is a random selection.

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Poland: Nowa Huta Photos

It’s past midnight, so yesterday I went to Nowa Huta which was built as a model socialist city in the 1950s and 60s to house the workers of the Nowa Huta (New Steelworks). Although one would expect the usual mix of grey boring blocks with plenty of socialist architecture there is also a surprising amount [...]

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Happy Quarter of a Century to Me!

Yes it is that time of the year again when I get a little bit older and a little bit wiser! Today on my birthday I went to Slovakia which is only a 3 hour coach journey away from Krakow. Maria and I went skiing and I had the most fantastic day, ignoring the fact [...]

Poland: New Year 2007/2008 Photos

It has been a while since I updated my photos at Hugh’s Space. But here are the first photos from 2008. They from the new year celebrations I attended! Also some videos from this event are now on the Videos page!

Poland: New Year 2007/2008

Maria and I attended a ball in a Castle outside of Krakow [...]

2007 for me personally has been the year where Linux on the Desktop became a reality but before I get into this check out the videos from my new years party. It turned out to be quite a good start to the year!
January
One of my first posts this year in January was about me trying [...]

Landing in Snow [Photo]

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Yesterday evening I came back from a brief business trip to London. When we were nearly at Krakow the pilot informed us that there was snow in Krakow. We started to land and although I wasn’t sitting by the window I could see it was snowing heavily as everytime the light on the [...]

Iwonicz Photos online

Poland: Iwonicz 2007

In 2007 we had a 'Croatia Reunion' in Iwonicz, Poland.
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Last Thursday I joined Maria, Szymon and Aga for a ‘Croatia Reunion’ in Iwonicz, Poland. Among the highlights of this trip were a salt ‘cave’ that cures all your aliments and seeing the first oil well in the world………with oil naturally [...]

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Hugh Cowan

Name: Hugh
Nationality: British, European
Currently in: Krakow, Poland

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